Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.Kevin G. Hatala/Chatham University
Posted on 12/02/2024 5:44:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes with each other. These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall...
The first part of the find occurred in July 2021 during an excavation at Koobi Fora, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, where the skeletal remains of several ancient human relatives have been found. That excavation revealed one hominin footprint, alongside several other tracks made by large birds. The team decided to rebury the tracks with fine sand until a detailed excavation was possible...
The three other footprints perpendicular to the trackway were scattered across the site. Hatala thinks they were made by three separate individuals, their other tracks perhaps wiped out by other animals walking around the surface at the same time.
Hatala and his colleagues couldn't directly date the footprints. But Hatala said the fossils were found below — and therefore were "slightly older" than — a layer of volcanic ash on the same site known as Elomaling'a Tuff, which has been dated to 1.52 million years ago, according to the study...
The team concluded that hominins belonging to the species Homo erectus and the smaller-brained Paranthropus boisei made the footprints. P. bosei made the long trackway, while Homo erectus made the other three footprints, the study suggested. The skeletal remains of both species have been found at the site.
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Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.Kevin G. Hatala/Chatham University
This was all covered in the Bible already.
Not even close.
Pay no attention to the sinkhole behind the curtain.
I’m thinking there’s a good possibility they may have missed each by 20inutes or so.
😂
Oh, I know! Homo erectus saw the obelisk, and then beat poor Paranthropus to death with the femur from an antelope.
“Check out the foreign chick!”
1.5 million year old footprints... sure, sure. Trust the ‘experts.’ Trust the science.
lol
Trust experts? As opposed to an online troll? Every time.
I see the standard black and white rectangles, so you know this is legit. They seem to be always found when there is an archelogy find of significance. I wonder why there is no curiosity about them. Maybe they are tools that the human species used to use. Maybe we will never know.
lol
I don't think that's fair. Not fair at all. We're smart not dumb like everyone says. Oh sure we get things wrong every now and then but so do the experts. What we want is respect.
That’s why you run down all experts, because of respect? Spare me.
The only ones I run down are the ones NOT in the crosswalk. I have had enough with jaywalkers and I’m on a mission.
That’s why my dental work is done by my mechanic.
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